There’s lot of other great uses for Fluid. To take it to the next step you can now combine your Pandora app with AirFoil ($25) and your Apple Airport Express and you can play Pandora through your home stereo without any wires: Your Pandora app now runs independent of any other browser on your system and you can access it anytime just by clicking the icon in your menu. Now you’ve got a Pandora logo in your menu bar. Next, just select “Convert to MenuExtra SSB” from the application menu: Go ahead and fire it up and you’ll see Pandora running in it’s own very stripped down browser window. Now you’ve got a new “Pandora” app in your applications folder. You just enter the url of the site you want, in our case and you’re off to the races.
When you first run fluid you just see this dialog: Basically, it’s just a browser that runs as it’s own process and opens your favorite web application without showing you the toolbars and other nonsense that most browsers have. Which creates a “desktop” application out of your favorite web apps. The key to all this is a free mac app called Fluid:įluid let’s you create “Site Specific Browsers”. So I thought I’d whip up a quick explanation of my setup. I recently had a discussion with on Twitter about a good Pandora setup that doesn’t require keeping a browser tab open all the time. Posts | twitter | email | hire | book | my startup: How to run Pandora as a menubar item and play wirelessly on Mac Mobile web consultant, developer, and speaker
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